Newsletter 3-11-25

Good morning, friends. It’s Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 – do you know where your Magnificent Seven are? In this issue:

• 🔫 Kentucky Moves to Expand Concealed Carry
  A proposed law could allow 18-year-olds to carry concealed firearms.
• ⚖️ DeSantis Aims to Undo Parkland-Era Gun Laws
  Florida's governor is pushing to reverse age restrictions and red-flag laws in a major Second Amendment push.
• 👨‍⚖️ DOJ Targets Google’s Chrome Monopoly
  The Department of Justice is demanding Google sell off Chrome—and Android could be next.
• 🔌 Tesla Protests Escalate
  Demonstrations against Elon Musk’s political influence and Tesla’s government contracts are turning more aggressive.
• 🪙 Texas Advances Bitcoin Reserve Bill
  The Lone Star State moves closer to holding Bitcoin as a strategic asset, following a nationwide push for crypto adoption.

Also in this issue: Secret Service leadership changes, Zelensky’s rumored apology to Trump, and an InfoWars reporter has been murdered...

New Schawb Just Dropped ⚡

Schwab has an excellent new piece titled Slop World over at IM—1776. I would strongly encourage that you read it. Slop is the mustard gas fogging out the trenches in the age of silent weapons for quiet wars. It's worth your time to read and digest the article, which is a nice follow up to last year's The Transmutation of National Security.

The erosion of humanity’s higher faculties and subsequent devolution into unconscious, remotely controllable drone swarms through the flattening and fragmentation of consensus reality is the Alchemical Great Work of the cybernetic-industrial complex. The centralized infrastructure of the New Internet serves as a vast digital alembic, putrefying human consciousness in a closed system of nigredo cycles that mineralize the attributes of free will and conscious intent to remake man as the homunculus of the Algorithmic Adam.

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Post Ex Parte Merryman

I received an email from Professor Seth Tillman as a follow-up to Now Let Him Enforce It, last month's issue about Trump's potential impasse with the judiciary. In the post, we took a brief look at Lincoln's apparent disregard of the courts in his suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and the detention of John Merryman, a Maryland land-owner thought to be loyal to the South.

Mr. Tillman attached two PDFs to his email which detail how the case surrounding Lincoln's actions, known as Ex Parte Merryman, is widely misunderstood and frequently mischaracterized, even by Supreme Court Justices.

I am not a lawyer, but I still found these papers to be accessible and informative. With his permission, I'm sharing with you what he shared with me. Most of this is "in the weeds," but those of you with a background in law or a particular interest in American history will find that these two papers deepen your understanding of Lincoln's decision and its relation to the judiciary.

...the standard restatement of the facts, reasoning, and disposition of Ex parte Merryman appearing in many (if not most) law review articles is wrong. Moreover, these mistakes are not unique to academic lawyers; a fair number of judges, historians, and academics in allied fields make the same or very similar mistakes. These repeated errors are somewhat surprising because Merryman is, if not a leading case, only one short step removed from the received case law canon. To put it another way, what is frequently written about Merryman is a series of myths.

📂PDF 1: Ex Parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship
📂PDF 2: What Court If Any Decided Ex Parte Merryman?
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Proposed KY Law Would Allow 18-Year-Olds to Carry Concealed Firearms

In Short: Kentucky's Senate Bill 75 proposes lowering the minimum age for carrying a concealed firearm from 21 to 18, sparking debate over self-defense rights and public safety.